We've started a new mining effort on Bitcoin Utopia. If you've got mining equipment and want to help out, please join the effort.

The ~5 bitcoins that were donated last year went primarily to buying replacement hard drives. With the number of drives we have running we lose quite a few over the course of a year. It was nice not to need to dip into cash to replace them.

There are no tasks for CPU/GPU/smartphones, ASIC miners are much much faster. I had chance to crunch some GPU tasks in the past when they were available, and it turned out that Nvidia GTX 1070 has similar speed as ASIC miner 333MH/s. And this 333MH/s miner is pretty old model - some people runs 1TH+ miners now, which are at least 3,000 times faster. Sorry, if you want to help you need to have ASIC miner. Please check eBay, AliExpress or any other similar sites, you should find some nice miners there. Make sure they are at least 1GH or faster, there are many slower ones there. And make sure that Bitcoin Utopia will work with it, there is list of supported miners in FAQ on BU site. In general you should look for USB and PCIe ones, most of them are supported by BU.

That's a pity. I run a cluster with more than 3,800 cores, including a stack of GPU blades. That will be doubling in the next few weeks.. So far I have not found any interest from the SETI folks to have me contribute with the cluster. This is yet more of the same... :(

That's a pity. I run a cluster with more than 3,800 cores, including a stack of GPU blades. That will be doubling in the next few weeks.. So far I have not found any interest from the SETI folks to have me contribute with the cluster. This is yet more of the same... :(

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Install BOINC, attach them to the project, let them crunch.Grant
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In the Notices section of BOINC ( just running SETI@home) the new notice on Bitcoin Utopia has an embedded weblink to BitCoin Utopia, which
according to my Norton Security is 'unsafe' and connects to a malicious website. This may or may not be a false positive for Norton Security, but it would be a good idea surely to rectify the situation, which if not resolved, can only impact the success of this cause? Just saying . . . . .

I added Bitcoin Utopia to my project list after reading the notice yesterday, and everything seemed to be going fine at first. The work unit was scheduled to take between 2 and 3 hours, and by the time the first three hours were up it had nearly finished. Things then started getting a little weird - it started running slower and slower, and now it's using a paltry proportion of CPU time and has been reporting that it's on 100% progress for the last 10 hours or so of runtime, with the job still not having completed. Is this anything to be concerned about, or is this normal behaviour for this particular application?

Why not just directly donate Bitcoins to 1DuKPGnQ16TJpDUKS1CgWvrdVKtRTGPgir rather than encourage users to just do work with their non-existent ASICs? Most users in SETI & BOINC forum here will be approaching the new project with a GPU/CPU. We, the Gridcoin community, voted to removed Bitcoin Utopia (BU) from our whitelist of projects that will give tasks eligible for reward. The project got removed because of their campaigns becoming non-transparent-for-profit and no longer doing former campaigns like the one that was just re-opened for SETI. The donation of Bitcoin is something that remains to be a volatile one, albeit tax-free. I like how BU has been moving back into the right direction, IMO.

Also, when can I actually donate Gridcoins to SETI@home ? YOYO already accepts donations for both coins.

That's a pity. I run a cluster with more than 3,800 cores, including a stack of GPU blades. That will be doubling in the next few weeks.. So far I have not found any interest from the SETI folks to have me contribute with the cluster. This is yet more of the same... :(

What do you mean? What interest you want to see/get?

There is constant need of additional computing power in project.
Why just not to connect you cluster to SETI project and do crunching? What prevents??SETI apps news
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Bitcoin Mining Without Hardware?
It’s still technically possible to mine bitcoins without dedicated mining hardware. However, you’ll earn less than one penny per month. Mining bitcoins on your computer will do more damage to your computer and won’t earn a profit. So, it’s not worth it unless you’re just interested to see how the mining process works. You’re best bet is to buy dedicated hardware like the Antminer S7 or Antminer S9.

I'm routinely running 9 Seti @ Home blocks simultaneously but the event log for Bitcoin Utopia part of the project just keeps saying:
"Got 0 new tasks - No Tasks Sent"

Ideas?

Fairly normal response, this translates as "You haven't sent any completed work back to us so we aren't sending you any new work"Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?